You've captured my thoughts quite well. I've gone from a leader of the "Fire Boals" crowd to thinking he's probably the MAC COY the year next year with the talent he's assembled.
Don't get me wrong, I like what we've done this offseason. And I'm glad that Boals seems to have deliberately made a shift in strategy.
But I think this team still has a ton of questions, virtually no continuity or minutes logged together, and the how the pieces fit is still very much an open question.
To me, the biggest concerns are:
1) Lack of size in the backcourt and on the wing. We have three small guards that expect to see a lot of time and at least one of them (Pavs) struggles a lot defensively. No idea how KDA or Mitchell project there, but we're undersized. We have a lot of eggs in the Siebe basket -- if he underwhelms or is prone to foul trouble or whatever, this could become a serious flaw.
2) Simmons stamina & frontcourt depth. Simmons is an excellent frontcourt player, but last year only played 27 minutes a game despite how thin our frontcourt was. Icke is big, but has played exactly 0 minutes of college basketball. Kuany is long and will get minutes in the frontcourt, and I'm bullish on Mosly and Dusan. But there's a lot of ifs here. Somebody pointed out that the expectation around the team is that Kuany is starting at the 4; if that's a reflection on Dusan, that makes me a little nervous.
3) Boals ball. Our offense struggles to create good looks and is stagnant a lot of the time. We need to make sure we have a coach who can actually get enough out of his talent.